AT A GLANCE: DOC NYC 2015 SHORT LIST FILMS

The DOC NYC Short List has a history of being a predictor of other awards, from critics’ prizes and top ten lists to the Oscars. In each of the past two years, the DOC NYC Short List had nine titles overlapping the subsequent Oscar Documentary Short List. For the last four years, DOC NYC screened the documentary that went on to win the Oscar: Citizenfour (2014), 20 Feet From Stardom (2013), Searching for Sugar Man (2012), and Undefeated (2011).

All of the DOC NYC Short List titles will show during the festival with the director or other special guests present for their first screening. Additionally, all of the directors will participate on Friday, November 13 in the DOC NYC Morning Manifesto Short List Directors, a 90-minute conversation moderated by DOC NYC Artistic Director Thom Powers. Confirmed participants are: Evgeny Afineevsky, Kirby Dick, Liz Garbus, Alex Gibney, Davis Guggenheim, Ethan Hawke, Matthew Heinemann, Asif Kapadia, Kim Longinotto, Michael Moore, Brett Morgen, Crystal Moselle, Morgan Neville, Stanley Nelson, and Joshua Oppenheimer.

Admission to the Morning Manifesto: Short List Directors event is available to holders of the Pitch Day Pass, DOC NYC PRO Pass or All Access Pass.

Admission to all Short List screenings is included with the All Access and DOC NYC PRO Passes; individual screening tickets for Short List titles are now on sale for $10 each.